“An outstanding collection. Though loss haunts his characters, Bukoski’s stories are about the enduring beauty of the human spirit—as delicate as a dragonfly’s wing, as indelible as the landscape of the heart. I will not soon forget them or this transcendent book.”—Lee Zacharias, author of Across the Great Lake
“I loved this book. Bukoski is a terrific writer. These stories are absolutely original, funny, lyrical, and touching. The Superior, Wisconsin, presented by Bukoski is as varied, complex, and tragic as Joyce’s Dublin and for me opened up a world I’d never known existed.”—David Milofsky, author of A Milwaukee Inheritance
“Demonstrates that the creative vein Bukoski first mined in Children of Strangers can still unearth treasures. Against a bleak post-industrial backdrop, the stubborn, broken Polish Americans who feature in his stories persist and in spite of every setback continue to exude a transcendent hope.”—The Polish Review